The Reverend Dr. Kate Cress, Rector
Canon James Paul Buonemani, Artistic Director & Organist-Choirmaster
Dr. Tom Mueller, Associate Organist

Justin Baker, Communications & Concert Manager

Bill Vestal, Artistic Director for Sundays Live

3903 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California   90010

Saint James Music Office: 213/388-3015

Email: GreatMusic@SaintJamesLA.org

GreatMusicLA.org

SundaysLive.org

We are located in the Wilshire Center district of Los Angeles, two blocks west of Western Avenue. Ramp accessible.

Metro Purple Line: Wilshire/Western station, then walk two blocks west.

Street parking available with additional free concert parking at 3926 Wilshire Blvd. across from the front of the church.

Welcome to Great Music at Saint James

INTERNATIONAL LAUREATES ORGAN SERIES

We invite you to experience great organ music played on the David John Falconer Memorial Organ (originally built in 1911 for St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Los Angeles, by Murray M. Harris). Comprising over 5,000 pipes in total, the organ is an important part of Los Angeles musical history and takes its place among the country’s most important and magnificent instruments.

This season we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the rebuilding of this magnificent pipe organ at St. James Church as well as the launching of our series Great Music at Saint James itself which has featured over 250 of the most distinguished organists from throughout the world.  In 2021 we are pleased to welcome American organists Alcee Chris, Todd Wilson and Christopher Houlihan, Canadian organist Ken Cowan, and British organists Clive Driskill-Smith, Tom Winpenny and Jeremy Filsell. We are especially excited to have Todd Wilson of the Cleveland Institute of Music, present a re-dedicatory recital on October 10, 2021. He will premiere a new work written specially for the occasion and the first commercially available CD album of our David John Falconer Memorial Organ will be released at that concert. 

These recitals are offered as a gift to the community free of charge, and we are grateful to the Ahmanson Foundation and our Friends of Great Music for their continuing support.

SOLEMN EVENSONG

The semi-professional Choir of Saint James distinguished itself in 1996 as the first American Choir to have sung in performance with the Choir of Westminster Abbey, London. They have since completed four tours of the British Isles and are pleased to offer the Los Angeles community the uniquely Anglican service of Evensong in the style of the great English Cathedrals on the second Sunday of the month at 4:30 PM beginning in January of 2021. Freewill offering.

ADVENT PROCESSION OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

Patterned after the ever-popular service of Nine Lessons and Carols originating from King’s College, Cambridge, England, the Choir of Saint James will offer a video presentation of a past service in December 2020, and will resume an in-person service in December of 2021. Freewill offering.

We are grateful to our Friends of Great Music whose support has made our musical offerings possible. If you are not already a Friend of Great Music at St James, please consider becoming one.

Your tax-deductible gift will be acknowledged in our Evensong and Organ Recital programs on the second Sundays of the month (unless otherwise requested).

(Contributions to Sundays Live may be made separately at www.SundaysLive.org)

To make a contribution, please visit stjla.org/musicfriends. You can also contribute by sending a check made payable to Great Music at St. James and mailed to

Great Music at St. James
St. James Church
3903 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA   90010

Thank you!

Archangel - $5,000
Angel - $2,500
Sustaining Sponsor - $1,000
Benefactor - $500
Patron - $250
Associate - $125
Contributor - $65
Donor - $25

Beginning in 1948 at Exposition Park, we now celebrate the 30th Anniversary of LACMA Sundays Live since its adoption at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now presented at St. James in-the-City. Chamber, orchestral, choral and solo artists from Southern California and around the globe will continue their free concert offerings at 6 PM, streaming live and On Demand. Together, our International Laureates Organ Series and Sundays Live will make every Sunday at St. James in-the-City an inspirational concert destination at 6 PM.